SALLY J WALKER has been awriter, editor, and creative writing instructor since receiving her 1985 BFA
from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Her published books include Letting
Go of Sacred Things, a literary novel of life stages in the 20th century
(The Fiction Works, 2002), Desert Time, a western saga following the life of a young woman abandoned by one man and cherished by another in 1859 New Mexico
(The Fiction Works, 2005). Stories are included in the Hi-Lo (Third Grade Level) adult literacy anthology
Tell Me of Love (The Fiction Works, 2004), in the Hi-Lo (Third Grade Level) adult literacy anthology
The Real West (The Fiction Works, 2004), and the forthcoming books To
Touch to Belong, Ties That Bind, Turquois and Feather, The
Seduction of Temperance, The Lonely Man, and Storm Maker. Her
screenplay The Lonely Man placed among the 233 quarter-finalists of the 4,446 entries in the 1998 Nicholl competition sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
She belongs to Romance Writers of America CAMEO, Western Writers of America, the
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, Nebraska Writers Guild, and
the Nebraska Writers (a weekly study-critique group she has facilitated since
1985). Well over 2,000 Midwest writers have attended her WRITE-NOW workshops on
Intro to Novel Writing, Fictional Characterization, Advanced Plotting
Techniques, Writing Genre, Fiction's Grammar, Scene-by-Scene Writing, and
Revising & Selling. Intro to Screenwriting and Analyzing & Writing Genre Film.